The European Union is nothing it used to be. This is a weak, overbureocratized, woke and self destructive place, where lobbyists decide how to burden it’s citizens more and more.

Yeah they have killed the innovation through directives, bureaucratization and regulation. In fact most people in my country don't know what "productive work is" even in companies and instead they are doing some kind of mandatary sustainable communication plans.

There must be a lot going into this because those top cities certainly have their share of "over-bureaucratization and interventionism".

Europe has messed it up! The cost of establishing a start up are so much high with all those regulations to abide by, it's impossible to see the startup culture grooming.

The best start up culture is booming in China and India is because of the friendly and less burdened establishment cost there.

When I went to france thanks to a university exchange program, I could see the process of entrepreneurship dying in real time. There where plenty of programs to incentivize students to launch startups, and that was the very first symptom that things where going south: why do you have to promote entrepreneurship so intensely if it's supposedly a good thing? Nothing, absolutely nothing that's well liked and successful needs to be promoted. Indeed, all students there start thinkering excitedly on the possibilities, and then incentives drop down to zero when they have to decide between working for a state-owned company or go through the hell of starting a business. The decision is a no-brainer. Same for germany, my friend there told me about the private sector offers vs the state sector. It wasn't even a competition.